Linguistics at University of Connecticut

What traits are you looking for in a linguistics school? To help you decide if University of Connecticut is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's linguistics program.

UCONN is located in Storrs, Connecticut and approximately 27,215 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Linguistics section at the bottom of this page.

UCONN Linguistics Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Linguistics
• Master’s Degree in Linguistics

UCONN Linguistics Rankings

The linguistics major at UCONN is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Linguistics. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

There were 8 students who received their doctoral degrees in linguistics, making the school the #5 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Linguistics Student Demographics at UCONN

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the linguistics majors at University of Connecticut.

UCONN Linguistics Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 35% of linguistics bachelor's degrees went to men and 65% went to women. The typical linguistics bachelor's degree program is made up of only 33% men. So male students are more repesented at UCONN since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 11% more racial-ethnic minorities in its linguistics bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Connecticut with a bachelor's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UCONN Linguistics Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of linguistics master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Connecticut with a master's in linguistics.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	2
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Language Translation
• Comparative Literature

Careers That Linguistics Grads May Go Into

A degree in linguistics can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CT, the home state for University of Connecticut.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
Interpreters and Translators	430	$47,560

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.